violentlyadverb
uk/ˈvaɪə.lənt.li/us/ˈvaɪə.lənt.li/B2 in a forceful way that causes people to be hurt:
He claimed to have been violently assaulted while in detention.
strongly or extremely:
She violently disagreed with what we said.
He was violently sick (= he vomited a lot).
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- Police and rioters clashed violently.
- She shook the bottle violently and showered us with champagne.
- The car hit a patch of ice and slewed around violently.
- They were violently opposed to change.
- They attacked the boys violently with pieces of wood.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Violent or aggressive
- aggressive
- aggro
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- atrocious
- atrocity
- confrontation
- desperate
- flex your muscles idiom
- forced
- forcible
- frenzied
- gay-basher
- hostile
- running with blood idiom
- sabre-rattling
- savage
- savagely
- savagery
- steep
- steeped in blood idiom
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